AP Introduction to English Colonization

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AP Introduction to English Colonization
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Whats going on in England soon before
colonization?

• King Henry VIII breaks with the Catholic Church,
  1530s
• Queen Elizabeth starts her rule, 1558

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• Ferocious crushing of the Irish (tactics will be
  used on Natives)
• Sir Walter Raleigh and the attempted colonization
  of Roanoke Island, 1585--all thats left is
  Croatoan carved into a tree

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Other events

• Sir Francis Drake and the sea dogs
• Sinking of the Spanish Armada, 1588

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Why did people leave England for Jamestown and
Plymouth?

• Enclosure movement
• Economic depression in the woolen trade
• Laws of primogeniture
• Desire to make money

• John Calvin added to Martin Luthers ideas
• His followers were persecuted
• Pilgrims (Separatists), Puritans

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JAMESTOWN, 1607
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KEY INFORMATION ABOUT JAMESTOWN (and later,
Virginia)

• Joint stock company
• gentlemen
• Starvation
• Captain John Smith
• John Rolfe
• Pocahontas
• Clashes with Powhatans

• Lord De La Warr
• Disease, disorganization, disposability
• Tobacco
• Slavery, 1619
• Royal colony, 1624

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PLYMOUTH, 1620
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KEY INFORMATION ABOUT PLYMOUTH (and later,
Massachusetts)

• Predestination
• visible saints
• Pilgrims/separatists decide to leave
• Puritans will join them in the 1630s and Plymouth
  will be merged into Massachusetts Bay colony
• Mayflower (ship and compact)
• Bound for VA
• Plymouth Rock
• William Bradford

• Once Puritans comeJohn Winthrop and city upon a
  hill
• Bible commonwealth
• Protestant work ethic
• Quakers
• Anne Hutchinson and antinomianism
• Roger Williams
• Wampanoag Indians, Squanto, First Thanksgiving
• Pequot War, 1630s
• King Philips War, 1670s

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